1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000005222

Autore

Bennett, H. S.

Titolo

Chaucer and fifteenth-century verse and prose / H. S. Bennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1947

ISBN

0-19-812229-2

Descrizione fisica

348 p. ; 22 cm.

Collana

The Oxford History of English Literature ; 2

Disciplina

820.09

Soggetti

Letteratura inglese - Storia - Sec. 15

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464402003321

Autore

Frankel Philip

Titolo

Between the rainbows and the rain : Marikana, migration, mining and the crisis of modern South Africa / / Philip Frankel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johannesburg, South Africa : , : Agency for Social Reconstruction, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-620-57813-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Disciplina

331.62679068

Soggetti

Miners - South Africa - Rustenburg

Miners - South Africa - Recruiting

Migrant labor - South Africa

Contract labor - South Africa

Industrial relations - South Africa

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; GLOSSARY OFFREQUENTLY USED ACRONYMS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE -Killing; CHAPTER TWO -Working; CHAPTER THREE -Migrating, Broking and Contracting; CHAPTER FOUR - Living; CONCLUSION:OVER THE RAINBOW?; FOOTNOTES; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

ìRainbowsî dissects the South African ìmiracleî across a vast landscape from the shack settlements of Marikana to the highest levels of government and corporate behaviour in the South Africa mining industry. It sets out what we know about the Markana massacre against the background of hazardous work conditions in the mines two decades after ì liberationî. Going well beyond the Farlam Commission of Inquiry it also examines, for the first time, the nightmare world of labour broking-cum-human trafficking. It evaluates the prospects for improving life in the near-mine communities that magnetise th